To protect human health and the environment, the Ministry of Environment and Forests had notified the Bio-Medical Waste (Management and Handling) Rules, 1998 under the Environment (Protection) Act, ...

Biomedical waste management has been a serious environmental issue the country has been facing for quite a long time now. The issue has been hitting the headlines for the last some decades as there ...

The Union government has now brought in a consolidated guidance on biomedical waste management in a bid to create uniformity in the existing biomedical waste management norms of the Central Pollution ...

The MLA warned that improper disposal of used syringes, bandages and other medical waste could turn hospitals into sources of ...